Intel Xeon X5650 vs AMD FX-8370E

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8370E

Price

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$ 46.96

$ 165.06 significantly less expensive

$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2207 points

2% slightly better overall score

2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3219 points

3237 points

0.56% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1889 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1825 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1753 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.76 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

34.44 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

3.3 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.06 GHz

4.3 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

701st of 1,118

709th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon X5650 vs FX-8370E specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5650 beats the FX-8370E in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8370E has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8370E has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8370E. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5650. Also, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8370E has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8370E.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.